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#34851: Mar 26th 2019 at 5:16:58 PM

Given how TFS rolls nowdays, I think Buu just being an exaggeration of his canon self is a sure bet. They played up Freeza's petulance and arrogance, they played up Cell's creepiness and love of combat, and I'm betting they'll play up Buu's unsettling contrast between his childish personality and eldritch origins.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#34852: Mar 26th 2019 at 5:23:42 PM

They should have Fat Buu have a deep booming intimidating voice...while still acting like a harmless child.

And they should give Evil and Super Buu the child like voice.

The dissonance will really bake people's noodles.

Kid Buu in contrast, should say absolutely nothing at all, just to make it clear he's a completely different animal.

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#34853: Mar 27th 2019 at 11:04:19 AM

They'll probably play up Buu's Blue-and-Orange Morality. Like, once Mr. Satan told Fat Buu that killing people was wrong, he was like, "OHHHHHH I didn't know that. WHOOPSIE-DOODLE!"

There's probably something in that dynamic they can ape for comedy.

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#34854: Mar 27th 2019 at 11:05:24 AM

What about the time Buu turned people into candy to feed a blind boy?

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#34855: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:25:45 PM

It was milk, and it's especially hilarious because the kid was already on his way to buy milk and gave Boo the money he was going to use for it.

Those people died for nothingwaii

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#34856: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:34:12 PM

It's Dragonball.

Dying for nothing is as common as dying period.

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#34857: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:39:23 PM

[up][up]Hey, it was so he could have healthy bones! It wasn't for nothing.

Edited by fredhot16 on Mar 27th 2019 at 3:39:35 AM

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#34858: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:40:13 PM

Has anyone ever died in dragon ball and not come back?Genuine question

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#34859: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:42:10 PM

[up]The Namekians of that one village Vegeta massacred.

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#34860: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:46:02 PM

Most villains Goku kills stay dead.

Raditz

Cell (Not counting GT and non-canon movies)

Grandpa Gohan if you don't count showing up as an undead for a day-long fight?

Roshi's master via flashback.

If you count merging with Piccolo as a form of death, Kami.

People in that one City Nappa exploded.

People in that one city Gero and 19 rampaged through.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 27th 2019 at 6:50:23 AM

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#34861: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:47:45 PM

Everyone in that one city Nappa blew up when they first arrived on Earth. Actually, no one Nappa kills gets brought back except Goku's friends. No one gives a second thought about anyone else Nappa killed, like that navy he blew through. Also, anyone Gero killed when he eye beamed that city. Also also, anyone Vegeta or 18 killed during their fight.

Edited by WillKeaton on Mar 27th 2019 at 4:48:27 AM

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#34862: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:53:22 PM

Plus all of the powerless people that Goku slaughtered in the Red Ribbon Army.

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#34863: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:55:00 PM

All the evil people on Earth after Buu, also.

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#34864: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:56:17 PM

[up][up]I included those under "Villains Goku Killed".

If you wanna be specific he kills people WITH powers in the RRB, along with mooks.

The surreal part about the RRB arc is its the first time Goku just straight up murders people (as opposed to robots or putting a rabbit on the moon to make Mochi) and the manga bats like, 0 eyebrows at this escalation.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 27th 2019 at 6:56:42 AM

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#34865: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:56:33 PM

Yeah, those guy who shot the elderly couple, Bee, and Hercule.

I don't imagine the second guy, Smitty, would even want to be brought back to life after what Buu did to him.

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#34866: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:57:26 PM

Freeza is the odd one out since he was killed by Goku once.

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#34867: Mar 27th 2019 at 3:58:43 PM

If you count King Piccolo and Piccolo as the same person, that too.

And if Uub if you count him as Kid Buu being the same person.

Oh also stays dead: Vegeta's Dad, Goku's Mom. Goku's Dad if you ignore a shitty movie.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 27th 2019 at 6:59:37 AM

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#34868: Mar 27th 2019 at 4:05:03 PM

Goku murders an entire wolf pack for food in like the second episode. And I think he killed that Pterosaur that was pestering Bulma in episode one, and he was sapient. So Goku killing all the Red Ribbon Army guys isn't all that strange. It's weird to think Goku got way LESS murder happy when he became an adult. He was against killing the Ginyu Force and he kept sparring Freeza. I think the only time adult Goku kills anyoneis Kid Buu at the very end. At least until Super.

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#34869: Mar 27th 2019 at 4:06:38 PM

I'm obviously not counting things he kills for food or animals.

Otherwise Goku kills a fish on his very first appearance before he meets Bulma.

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#34870: Mar 27th 2019 at 4:20:30 PM

[up][up] he kills Yakon as well

And after Freeza he got over his whole 'spare people' phase. He mentions to Trunks that he would've finally killed Freeza, and he kills Freeza and Cold in the future.

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#34871: Mar 27th 2019 at 4:26:08 PM

And after Freeza he got over his whole 'spare people' phase. He mentions to Trunks that he would've finally killed Freeza, and he kills Freeza and Cold in the future.

At least up until Resurrection F decides oh, he doesn't want to kill Freeza after all, despite knowing full well what he'd do if he was left alone.

And then they actually frigging revive him (they needed him true, but still).

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#34872: Mar 27th 2019 at 4:51:17 PM

Lots of people get killed in Dragonball, but no one ever dies of old age. Like, how old is Ox King at this point? How is he not dead? What is even the life span of a human in the Dragonball world? Do they live a super long time like in Avatar? I don't think there has ever- no, wait. There was exactly one character who did die of old age.

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#34873: Mar 27th 2019 at 5:16:20 PM

Everyone in that one city Nappa blew up when they first arrived on Earth. Actually, no one Nappa kills gets brought back except Goku's friends. No one gives a second thought about anyone else Nappa killed, like that navy he blew through. Also, anyone Gero killed when he eye beamed that city. Also also, anyone Vegeta or 18 killed during their fight.

They actually couldn't have brought back that city, navy, etc. Mass-revivals have a one-year time limit. After a year's passed, you have to content yourself with singleton resurrections.

Porunga can't do mass-revivals until Mori's upgrade, so they were stuck reviving Goku's friends one by one on Namek. They got one chance to use Shenron and they had to burn it on mass-reviving Frieza and his men's victims - which explicitly did not include Vegeta and Nappa, or else Yamcha, Tenshinhan, etc. would have come back with the Namekians.

Next time Shenron would have been available for wishing would be one year later, when the 1-year limit on mass revivals for Nappa's victims had already expired.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 27th 2019 at 6:16:36 AM

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#34874: Mar 27th 2019 at 5:19:09 PM

Or Popo could've just worded the wish as "Revive everyone whos death was caused by Freeza, his men and the Saiyans"

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 27th 2019 at 8:19:35 AM

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#34875: Mar 27th 2019 at 5:21:53 PM

That would probably have resurrected Nappa, the Ginyus, Dodoria, and Zarbon in addition to all the others. Every last one of these people were killed by "The Saiyans".

Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 27th 2019 at 6:22:24 AM

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